The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 48
“Tell me, princess of the rainbow, do you remember when I forged the Sampo and hammered out its lid of many colors?
Who acts: you, hero · What happens: tell, remember, forge, hammer out · To what, where: princess, hero, Sampo, lid · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, hero), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
| 2 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Tell | iobj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 princess | punct |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Tell | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 rainbow | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rainbow | det |
| 8 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 princess | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 remember | punct |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 remember | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 remember | nsubj |
| 12 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Tell | conj |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 forged | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 forged | nsubj |
| 15 | forged | forge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 remember | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Sampo | det |
| 17 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 forged | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hammered | cc |
| 19 | hammered | hammer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 forged | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 hammered | compound:prt |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 lid | nmod:poss |
| 22 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hammered | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 colors | case |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 colors | amod |
| 25 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 lid | nmod |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | imperative | you not said here | princess of the rainbow | the hero = hero | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 2 | remember in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | forge in a quote | past | the hero = hero | the Sampo | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sampo=Product | ||||
| 4 | hammer out in a quote | participle | the hero = hero not said here | Sampo's lid of many colors | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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